Lamp-bracket.



No. 639,853. Patented Dec. 26, I899.

w. c. HUMAN.

LAMP BRACKET;

(Application filed Sapt. 2B, 1899.)

(No Model.)

W/TNESSES /N VENTO/i UNITED STATES WILLIAM C. HOMAN, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE EDWARD MILLER & COMPANY, OF CONNECTICUT.

LAM P-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,853, dated December 26, 1899.

Application filed September 28, 1899. Serial No. 731,887. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. HOMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, New Haven county, Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Brackets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to lamp-brackets for vehicles and the like; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the parts hereinafter fully described.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable and conveniently-detachablelampbracket, which construction is simple and inexpensive and capable of ready operation.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan View. Fig. 3 is a detail view of an attachment. Fig. 4 is a view of a detail of construction.

A is the dashboard of a vehicle.

B represents the hand-hole, such as is commonly provided in dashboards of the character illustrated. The lamp-bracket is designed chiefly to be attached to dashboards in which the edge is reinforced by a metallic reinforce 0.

D is a clamping-j aw having an ofiset guidepiece D for a slide-bar E, which by preference is adj ustably carried so as to be capable of longitudinal adjustment. F is another jaw, which may be f ulcrumed at fand through which may pass a clamping-screw G, having a perforated or hooked head G, through which by preference passes the bar E. The jaw D and piece D are preferably perforated or cut out to allow the passage of a clampingscrew G and prevent the independent rotation of the head G thereof. By forming this cut-out or perforation intermediate of the length of the piece D the slide-rod E may get a bearing on the opposite sides of the head G.

H is a wing-nut or its equivalent taking onto the screw G. At one end of the rod E may be provided a suitable holder I and adjusting-nut J for the lamp. The construction and mode of operation of this holder may be varied as desired. For example, if it is desired to carry a lamp rigidly it may be attached to the holder I by clamping it directly against the same, as shown in Fig. 2, or if it is desired to flexibly mount the lamp a spring-piece or a supporting device K may be attached to the holder directly, and the lamp may be attached to the spring-piece K, or the lamp itself may be provided with a spring-frame to be attached to the holder I directly, as first described, or indirectly, as last described.

To attach the bracket to a bicycle, the not H is unscrewed to a sufficient degree to enable the clamping-jaws to be passed over the edge of the supporting-frameworkfor example, the edge of a dashboard. The rod E is then inserted in the proper position through the head G of the adj Listing-screw G, and the adj usting-nut H may then be tightened, which operation will not only cause the jaws F D to clamp tightly upon the edge of the supporting-frame, but may also clamp the sliderod E firmly in the desired position. Independent clamping devices may also be employed, such as screws L L, which may pass freely through one clamping-jaw, as F, and screw into the opposite clamping-jaw, as D, so that by tightening up said screws said clamping-jaws maybe brought into still more rigid engagement with the supporting-frame of the dashboard. In the construction shown the bracket may be placed adjacent to the hand-hole G of a dashboard, and when in that position there will be no necessity of additionally perforating the dashboard to afford a passage for the screw L.

When the device is in use, the rod E can be pushed out, so that the lamp may take a desired position, and when not in use the rod E may be loosened and pushed back, so that the lamp will be close to the dashboard, thereby taking up less room and being less liable to accident.

What I claim is- 1. A rod, means on said rod for fastening an attachment thereto, a plurality of jaws, a guide on one of said jaws, and means for simultaneously clamping said rod to said guide and moving said jaws. V

2. A rod, means on said rod for fastening an attachment thereto, a plurality of jaws, a pair of oppositely-disposed guides, and means engaging said rod between said guides for simultaneously clamping said rod to said guides and moving said jaws.

means for varying the angular position of said attachment-plate, a pair of jaws, a pair I 5 of oppositely-disposed guides, a clamp between said guides for securing said rod to said guides, and means for operating said jaws independently of said clamp.

Signed at Meriden, Connecticut, this 22d 20 day of September, 1899.

WILLIAM 0. HUMAN.

Witnesses:

L. W, STADTMILLER, F. S. PARKER. 

